The top of the Black Mountain is a small area whose height is second only to the top of the mountain and to the High Palace. This is the real upper echelon of the empire. It is the country, and even this continent, that has the highest power, the richest resources, and the most tyrannical military power. A place where a group of people live.
The snow on the top of the mountain melted into clear streams, which converged into a small lake in a mountain col. An ancient and vicissitudes of the castle stood by the lake. Every brick and stone that cast this castle was a witness to history. This is A precious legacy of the Empire. But it is different from Dolag Castle where the Imperial Marshal Retusus lives. This castle has a little difference in appearance, but inside it is a completely different world...
Floors paved with crystals, columns made of pure gold, carpets woven with the silk of the Spider Queen, curtains woven with Phoenix down, living spaces expanded using space magic, treasures passed down from generation to generation created by masters of art and craftsmanship from all races... This kind of luxury can no longer be described by crude and pale words like "magnificent".
Magic candles made of mermaid fat illuminate the entire castle interior in a soft and warm light. Every twelve steps, you can see two beautiful elf maids standing on both sides of the corridor. They are smiling and lowering their heads slightly. , the figure remains motionless no matter how long it stands, like a sculpture.
In a secret reception room inside the castle, several old men, who are already quite old, are sitting around on the sofas. Their facial expressions are either shrewd and capable, or vicious and proud, but they all have one thing in common. The point is the self-confidence, calmness, and ruthlessness developed from being in a high position for a long time.
Look carefully again. The sofa under them... no, every piece of furniture in this living room looked very unusual. This sofa, this coffee table. This lamp stand, this table and chair, every piece of furniture here is not made of wood or metal, but is a vivid human body, in a twisted posture, in an incomparably abstract form. Aesthetics are composed of each other. Their expressions are so vivid, and their skin is so smooth, delicate and full of texture that no one would believe that they are fake wax figures from a certain art master. And that's exactly what happens with every piece of furniture here. They are all made using living people.
Human body furniture... Furniture made by using magical and evil necromantic magic to permanently solidify living creatures into a specific posture. It is a "masterpiece" of human beings who have reached the ultimate peak of cruelty and aesthetics. Looking more closely, the faces of the human bodies that make up the furniture are all so familiar... The Forbidden Curse Mage who once annihilated tens of thousands of empire's regiments in one fell swoop, the Grand Mage of the Seven Towers Alliance Rays May, who holds the title of Crimson Witch. Landa, the elf queen Elune VII who has guarded the Mirk Forest for thousands of years, the legendary troll shaman, the prophet Jamalan White Fang, a legendary figure who once calmed down a war with her beauty and purity. Helen, the little princess of Emilo's thousand-year empire, and the charming Lady Sukaterina, the number one beauty in Montenegro before Count Amanda, and...
These are legendary figures. Each of these names should be permanently recorded in the epic, but at this moment, they are actually used as materials for a piece of furniture. Appearing in this secret reception room which is not very spacious. They are still alive... This is also their greatest misfortune.
In this strange and obscene room, every man is so calm and unhurried. They smoked dark pipes and occasionally tasted the fine wine placed on the "coffee table" in front of them. They looked just like the participants at a men's midnight card party at a regular home. But perhaps no one would believe that every piece of tobacco in their pipes was worth a whole gold brick, and that every sip of wine they drank was enough to feed a small town resident a day's worth of milk.
These people were all silent until a man in his forties gently smoked his pipe a few times and said, "Has the news been confirmed?"
A slightly younger man next to him immediately replied: "It has been confirmed by many people who attended the cocktail party two days ago. It can be confirmed that a child who looks exactly like Earl Amanda did appear, and his name is also It has been confirmed, Gloria Christia Tablis von Heuwen.”
"Xiuwen... Hehehe, is he really the lost son of that despicable executioner family? This is really interesting. I remember that Amanda's bitch brother had been missing for a long time, although I heard that he had been missing for two years. He appeared once before and then disappeared mysteriously. It seems that a lot of things happened within this humble family. "
Originally, a family of executioners who were an outlier among the nobility could be said to be even more humble than the lower-level nobles. Things related to them were not the concern of the big shots in this secret room, but who called that lowly philistine? A dazzlingly beautiful man has appeared in the Shou family, Count Amanda, who outshines other beauties with her masculine body and has won the title of "the most beautiful woman in the imperial capital".
"That bitch Amanda has been too arrogant in the past few years. Even we sometimes have to avoid and tolerate him. Now, our supreme majesty now has a new favorite, and now all his thoughts are focused on that giant monster. On, Amanda Hewen, hum, a mere executioner, I must cut open his body with my own hands, dig out his internal organs to make dishes, and then cut off his head to make it into my hunting exhibition. Museum specimens.”
"Barcelona, you are still so classless. You are just addicted to boring hunting... Don't you think that an art treasure like Amanda should be kept at home and trained into a well-behaved cat? I There are a few orc slaves who are very good at this. You have seen a lot of my precious pets before..." A tall man with a very feminine face said with an evil smile, and then his smile faded, with a look on his face. A little more seriously, he continued: "There is no doubt that Amanda has fallen out of favor, but it is not complete enough. Although our supreme emperor likes the new and hates the old, he should not be completely tired of Amanda as a toy. I have arranged for the eyes and ears in the palace. I also reported to me this morning that during breakfast, the emperor suddenly arranged for someone to pack a pastry on the table and deliver it to Amanda's mansion, saying that he vaguely remembered that he seemed to like eating this kind of food. This proved that the emperor had not completely forgotten about him. If we act rashly, it may lead to very bad consequences. Don’t forget, there have been fewer people sitting in this room in recent years.”
"Krokdal is right. It's not the time for us to take action now, and even if we take action, it's best not to target Amanda directly. We can definitely start from the Xiuwen family behind him. This newly discovered child, he may It can come in handy.”
"And... don't you think it might be a good thing to put this child and that bitch Amanda on the bed together? They look very similar, but one is like a ripe peach. The other is It's the sour and pungent green fruit..." The man who said this suddenly showed an ugly smile on his face, and his smile seemed to be contagious. After a while, most of the people in the room had very similar smiles on their faces. Images with roughly the same content seemed to come to mind.
"Yes, this should also be a very good experience for the emperor." A cold voice suddenly sounded in the room. The speaker was a man with a cold expression. There was a cold and biting murderous intention all over his body. , with this secret room, it seems a little out of place with the wretched old people in the secret room.
His words were like a basin of cold water, interrupting the fantasy of these old people. They said with expressions that showed displeasure but had to endure it: "General Zuo De, what do you mean by this?"
The man who suddenly spoke was actually the second most powerful figure in the empire's military, after Dragon Rider General Retusus. General Zuo De. He smiled coldly and said: "The Emperor likes new and interesting things, things he liked before. People who dote on them will always get bored of them in a month or two, and then abandon them mercilessly. But Amanda is stubborn Shengsheng broke this rule. The emperor's love for him lasted for seven years. In fact, if it hadn't been for this once-in-a-lifetime giant monster, I'm afraid the emperor would still have looked away from Amanda. To be honest, this is enough to show how terrifying the charm of that guy is. And now, even you are very interested in the child who suddenly appeared and want to bring him and Amanda together to enjoy and play with. Could it be that our supreme emperor? Wouldn’t I have such thoughts and impulses? If I were Amanda, I would never miss this opportunity to attract the Emperor’s attention back to me.”
Everyone in the room can be called a cunning person. They thought of many things in an instant, and the expressions on their faces suddenly became a bit ugly.
After a moment, the man who spoke first spoke again: "General Zuo De is right. This matter may be more complicated than we thought before. The most important plan of our Skull and Bones Society is the 'Long Distant Sunset' The process is about to begin, and no changes are allowed during this period. Amanda is very likely to become an obstacle to us, and he will never be allowed to gain the favor of the emperor again. We cannot touch Amanda easily, so we must first remove that The child is in your hands.”
This man's status was obviously higher than the others. After he spoke, there was no voice of objection or questioning. He paused, his eyes swept across the faces of everyone in the room, and then said with a smile: "It's fortunate that Unfortunately, this child is now in the hands of a lower-level noble. He cannot leave Montenegro without my permission. Although he has been jumping around in the past two days, I don't think anyone dares to disobey our Skull and Bones Society for the sake of a lower-level noble. Yes, it seems that I need to send someone to greet our little beauty."
This matter is neither small nor big. After all, the one who "owns" Goron now is just a lower-level noble. In the eyes of these really big people, he is like an ant-like existence that is no different from civilians, not to mention that they are still the most powerful. A behemoth in the imperial capital's political arena, the supreme leader of the "Skull and Bones Society". This kind of thing can be arranged through magic communication and arranged for someone to handle it. Soon an arrogant and domineering carriage rushed out of the castle and sped towards the noble district down the mountain.
These big shots were smoking and drinking, and the topic changed one after another. At this time, the big shot suddenly said: "I recently bought two girls from the old street, and they are just like the legends. Although these girls are not the best in terms of appearance and figure, , but the way they serve people is extremely considerate. They always know what you need most, what you want to hear most, and what you like to do most. They can comfort you like a mother when you are tired, and when your body needs it. , even if you are a little older and are always a little unable to do that, they can still find a way to regain your glory, and then let you be destroyed like a little bird in bed, so that you can get the greatest satisfaction. I couldn't live without them. They were no better than those elf slave girls who had pretty faces but were always lifeless like an alchemy machine. I got angry and made all the boring elf women in my family into specimens. Their faces can look better, I think you all saw it when you entered the house."
Hearing "The Girl of the Old Street", General Zuo De, who was always a little out of tune with the atmosphere in the room, suddenly frowned, as if he wanted to say something, but at this moment, everyone suddenly heard a rush The magic ringtone sounded, and then an old man picked up a magic accessory with a displeased expression, touched it with his fingers, and then a sound came from the accessory.
The voice was not loud. The old man listened quietly, but the expression on his face became more and more angry. Finally, he just said coldly to the accessories: "I don't need trash, you and your family can do it." Go to hell and have your successor come to me tomorrow morning with your head."
After saying these cold and ruthless words, the old man turned off the magic communication accessory and remained silent for a long time before saying to the others: "We started too late. Someone had already taken the child away first."
"Who is it?" The old people in the room did not yell. Their anger did not need to be expressed in such a crude way, but just looking at the solemn atmosphere in the room, one could tell that they wanted to calm down their anger. What a huge price it will pay.
The old man who spoke suddenly had a strange face. After struggling for a long time, he slowly spit out a name, a name that made all other old people shut up.
"That person is... Letusus." (To be continued...)